The gruesome incident, according to the official, took place in Nawar district on Wednesday afternoon when a group of children found a toy-like object and started playing with it, but the object exploded, killing two children on the spot and injuring on another.

Kabul: Two children were killed and another injured after an unexploded ordnance left over from past wars exploded in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province on Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Khalid Sarhadi said on Thursday.

The gruesome incident, according to the official, took place in Nawar district on Wednesday afternoon when a group of children found a toy-like object and started playing with it, but the object exploded, killing two children on the spot and injuring on another.

A similar incident claimed the lives of three children and injured three others in the neighboring Qara Bagh district of Nawar last week, Xinhua news agency reported.

Afghanistan is one of the most contaminated countries in the world with mine. Dozens of people, most of them children, are killed or maimed every month by explosive device blasts left over from more than four decades of war and civil unrest.